Obedience Q&As

I was just looking at your site and some of your beautiful pictures of german shepherds. I have a female German Shepherd who will be 2 years old in March of this year. I also have a Sheltland Sheepdog who is 2 and half years old. My husband and I are thinking about getting another Shepherd. But we are concerned about bringing in another dog with our dogs being so territorial. Both of my dogs that I have now are trained in obedience and my Shepherd (Alexis) will be starting personal protection...

Cindy, I found what I was looking for on the commands, thanks for the nudge in the right direction. I have a few questions for you about search and rescue, and I ask only in that it appears that in the Q&A sections some of the post are older and I figure you have newer information available. 1. With the many years of experience you and Ed have, who has the best trained dogs for search and rescue? In this respect I am asking about organizations, groups or countries. 2. On the subjec...

Dear Mr Leerburg, We have just adopted a beautiful 2 1/2 year old male boxer. We have had 'Niko' for 6 days now. We also have a 2 year old female mini- schnauzer named Bella, that we've had from 8 weeks. How I found your website is that we had an incident in that our very dominate male adopted cat, Roscoe, 'got into it with Niko about 4 days after Niko was here. Up until that point, my cats & dogs have always loved and 'hung out' with each other. For the first 4 days indoors, they could...